According to the Minister of Solidarity, 600 of the 7,500 French medical retirement homes were checked following the Orpea scandal. About 10 % of them were then the subject of an in -depth inspection.
Le Monde
The controls carried out in nearly 600 nursing homes following the Orpea scandal led to three referrals from justice, the Minister of Solidarity, Jean-Christophe Combe.
To date, “nearly 600 establishments have been checked. These checks have given rise to more than 1,000 recommendations, 642 prescriptions, 193 injunctions and three referrals from the prosecutor. This is already an extremely important result “said the minister when examining the 2023 Social Security Budget (PLFSS).
Last March, the government announced that the 7,500 medical – public, associative or private for -profit retirement homes – would all be controlled within two years, and constraints for more transparency as to their services and Their use of public funds.
This announcement followed the publication of the Les Foussoyeurs survey book, where journalist Victor Castanet accused the private group Orpea of having set up a “system” to optimize his profits to the detriment of the well-being of residents and Employees.
Previously, checks “every twenty to thirty years”
Before this mission launched in March, the establishments were checked “every twenty to thirty years”, noted the Minister of Solidarity. “More than 500 agents are currently mobilized”. “It starts with a simple control, on part” then if necessary an “additional survey on site” is carried out, before a possible “classic control inspection”, he detailed. “About 10 % of nursing homes will be the subject of these in -depth control inspections, making it possible to put an end to certain practices in establishments,” said Combe.
The deputy “rebellious” François Ruffin questioned the minister the ability to carry out the controls correctly. “I have not seen the budget lines that tell us how many controllers you plan to hire,” he said, deploring a refusal according to him to supervise the “seriously” sector. Communist deputy Pierre Dharréville is pleaded to “ask the question of the ban on for-profit establishments”.
The government has already adopted the PLFSS “revenue” part, by activating article 49.3 of the Constitution, without vote. During the continuation of the debate on the rest of the text, the deputies examined Tuesday measures provided for in this budget to improve the transparency and financial regulation of medico-social establishments and services.
The deputies strengthened them, by providing in particular to double, from 500 to 1,000 euros, the amount of the daily penalty applicable in the event of non-compliance with the injunctions of the control authorities. And they have quintuplely, from 1 to 5 % maximum of turnover, financial sanctions for non-compliance with the law governing these establishments.
The Assembly also voted, against the government’s opinion, amendments asking for reports to the executive. One requires proposals to protect “small savers” investing in EHPAD rooms and which can find themselves “spoiled” by certain practices. Another claim a report on the number of public nursing homes being in deficit or payment of payment.